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11:50 PM ET, April 26, 2023

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Tucker Carlson called a senior Fox News executive the c-word, something Fox's lawyers persuaded the court to redact and which helped lead to his firing  —  Prime-time host called senior executive the c-word in redacted missive; network grew wary of further embarrassment from possible disclosure
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Rolling Stone:
Sources: Fox would share details from a Tucker Carlson “oppo file”, including workplace conduct complaints, if executives suspect he is coming after the network  —  Eight sources tell Rolling Stone that the network's top brass has been stockpiling information on the departing primetime host
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Tucker Carlson's long journey from a self-described truth-digging journalist to a promoter of conspiracy theories and a pro-MAGA, for-mega-profit propagandist
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Sources: Paper Magazine lays off its staff, effective April 28, and stops its editorial operations but is not closing; EIC Justin Moran will remain through May  —  The iconic title hopes to avoid closure  —  The staff of Paper Magazine, the music and cultural publisher made famous by the 2014 …
Chad Umble / LancasterOnline:
The Steinman family plans to donate LNP Media Group to WITF, a public broadcasting station in Pennsylvania; LNP is set to become a public benefit corporation  —  The Steinman family's 158-year ownership of a daily newspaper in Lancaster will end in June with a gift meant to safeguard the future of its flagship publication.
Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Washington Post:
A profile of Nate Silver, who was a baseball statistician before FiveThirtyEight and in 2020 entered COVID-19 debates despite having no public health experience  —  Readers only knew him as “poblano.”  —  A baseball statistician by day, the mysterious writer started dipping his toes …
Bloomberg:
Kantar: Netflix lost 1M+ subscribers in Spain in Q1 2023, or triple the cancellations in Q4; two thirds of those who canceled were using someone else's password  —  Netflix Inc. lost more than one million users in Spain in the first three months of 2023 according to market research group Kantar …
Discussion: @harry_jerry, New York Post and Insider
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Netflix plans to spend almost $6B producing shows and films in the UK from 2020 through 2023, or “nearly 50% more” than the company originally anticipated  —  Netflix will have invested almost $6BN in UK content over four years by the end of 2023, the streamer has revealed.
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Tubi founder and CEO Farhad Massoudi leaves the company; Fox restructures its digital operations and forms the Tubi Media Group, led by Fox CTO Paul Cheesbrough  —  Fox Corporation is restructuring its digital operations by forming the Tubi Media Group as Farhad Massoudi …
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Inside Jeff Shell's firing; sources say an NBCU investigation coinciding with CNBC anchor Hadley Gamble's contract situation unearthed emails that got him fired  —  Wearing a nondescript gray T-shirt with a backstage pass dangling from his neck, Jeff Shell looked more like a snowy-haired roadie …
CNN:
Nielsen: Newsmax numbers exploded in the hours after Tucker Carlson's ouster, averaging 531,000 total viewers on April 24, more than triple April 17's 146,000  —  Alarm bells must be going off inside Fox News.  —  The firing of the right-wing network's most popular host, the extremist Tucker Carlson …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Tucker Carlson's exit, like Glenn Beck's and Bill O'Reilly's, shows that no one is irreplaceable since Fox News itself, which convenes the audience, is the star
 
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
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Michelle Pitcher / The Texas Observer:
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Dave Byrnes / Courthouse News Service:
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Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
News sharing app Artifact adds an AI tool for generating article summaries but notes that users should still read the full text because AI “can make mistakes”
Discussion: The Verge and Gizmodo